{"id":6882,"date":"2015-10-09T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2015-10-09T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:53:36","slug":"american-zombies-enemies-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6882","title":{"rendered":"American Zombies: Enemies Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Schlichter\u00a0ruminates on our <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/10\/09\/heres-whats-behind-our-obsession-with-zombies\/\">current obsession with zombies. <\/a>Not long ago, many mainstream stories focused on foreign threats or nuclear fallout. Today, we entertain ourselves with mysterious outbreaks that turn people into flesh-eaters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does it say,&#8221; Schlichter asks, &#8220;that our collective subconscious senses less of a threat from fanatical outsiders who, in the last couple decades, have killed thousands of us via terrorism, than from each other?<\/p>\n<p>. . .\u00a0The foreigners are a threat, but that\u2019s under control.\u00a0What is out of control, or what seems like it is out of control, is our society itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Schlichter\u00a0ruminates on our current obsession with zombies. Not long ago, many mainstream stories focused on foreign threats or nuclear fallout. Today, we entertain ourselves with mysterious outbreaks that turn people into flesh-eaters. &#8220;What does it say,&#8221; Schlichter asks, &#8220;that our collective subconscious senses less of a threat from fanatical outsiders who, in the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Zombies: Enemies Next Door<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[163,2510,3421],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-america","tag-science-fiction","tag-zombies"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}